> > Zwane M suggested using tbench as a load to test one of his recent patches and > gave me the idea to try using tbench_load in contest. Here are the first set > of results I got while running tbench 4 continuously (uniprocessor machine):> > tbench_load:> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% > test2420 1 180 38.9 > test2561 1 970 7.7 > > This is a massive difference. Sure tbench was giving better numbers on 2.5.61 > but it caused a massive slowdown. I wondered whether this translates into > being more susceptible to ping floods or DDOS attacks? You should have seen > tbench 16 - 3546 seconds!> > comments?

Are you running this via loopback? Can you send a profile during the 2.4.20 run?